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Global Informality Project

The Global Informality Project is a leading online resource for the world's open secrets, unwritten rules and hidden practices, broadly defined as 'ways of getting things done.' This global and growing collection of invisible, yet powerful informal practices is made possible by remarkable collaboration of scholars from five continents. The project:

• connects those interested in informality
• serves as a teaching and learning database for the academic community, policy makers, businesses and the public
• enables context-rich analysis and comparison of practices from all over the world

ABOUT

The Global Informality Project at a glance

• Main Findings
• Download the Global Encyclopaedia of Informality
• About the project

The collection of informal practices

• Browse the database
• Teaching and Learning Resources

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Latest additions to the database

• OBON (Kyrgyzstan)
• Vrtičkarstvo (Slovenia)
• Hemṣehricilik (Turkey)
• Burrnesha (Albania)
• Mungu idekh (Mongolia)

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• Pujogǔm (South Korea)
• Our entries published in 2018 and 2019

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• OPEN CALL for Volume 3
• Guidelines for entries
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INFORM has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693537.

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